From his perch in the Hyde Park Bank building near the corner of 53rd Street and Lake Park Avenue, bank President Tim Goodsell has watched countless efforts at commercialization come and go. “I've been sitting on this street since 1982,” Mr. Goodsell says, “and I've been involved in any number of aborted attempts to get commercial business ginned up here more aggressively. Frankly, I'd gotten to the point that I didn't think much was likely to happen given the economic doldrums.”
